block scope?

[Terry Reedy]

"Neal Becker" <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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| One thing I sometimes miss, which is common in some other languages 
(c++),
| is idea of block scope.  It would be useful to have variables that did 
not
| outlive their block, primarily to avoid name clashes.  This also leads to
| more readable code.  I wonder if this has been discussed?

Yes, but Guido (and others) prefer to keep things simple.

There is also the question of how to indicate a limited scope.  In C++, you 
put the declaration in the scope.  But Python has no such declarations.

tjr